Entries from Martin 1827 in Pollex-Online
Martin, J. (1827). An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language, compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr.William Mariner, several years reside in those islands. Edinburgh, Constable and Co.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tongan | Gooli | A dog |
| Tongan | Goolo | A cauldron, a kettle; a sort of earthenware vessel of the manufacture of the Fiji islands |
| Tongan | Goómá | A mouse, a rat |
| Tongan | Goomala | The sweet potatoe |
| Tongan | Goomete | A trough, a dish |
| Tongan | Goomi | To investigate, to search, to explore |
| Tongan | Gootoo | A louse |
| Tongan | Ha | To display, to shew, to appear |
| Tongan | Habe | A cripple |
| Tongan | Hage | Up |
| Tongan | Hahanga | A reef |
| Tongan | Ha/hów. How-chia. | The dew; a fog, a mist, a haze. Misty, foggy, cloudy. |
| Tongan | Hahage | That end of any island which is most towards the north; or if it should happen to lie east and west, that end which is most towards the east |
| Tongan | Hai. Haichia. | To tear, to cut. To tear to pieces. |
| Tongan | Hala. Halla. | Entrance, door-way; road into a plantation or wood. A road or path; a channel into a port. |
| Tongan | Hala. Halla. | An error; to err. To miss, to fail, to blunder; wrong, amiss; a mistake |
| Tongan | Hamma | The smallest canoe of a double canoe, viz. the leeward canoe |
| Tongan | Hamoochi/a | To grudge, to envy (used only with first person, singular or plural) |
| Tongan | Havili. Havili-vili. | A blast, a gale. A breeze. |
| Tongan | Hawla. Holla. | To escape, to flee. To run away, to desert. |
| Tongan | He. E. | The article, the or a. A contraction of the article he. |
| Tongan | He | A grasshopper |
| Tongan | Hea | The name of a tree, from the fruit of which is expressed a glutinous red varnish (called also hea)...used to stain and varnish the finest gnatoo... |
| Tongan | Heca | To sit down on a chair, bank, or bench; to embark; deposited, settled, placed in |
| Tongan | Héë | To err; astray, wandering |
| Tongan | He/hele. Hele. Ma/hele. | An incision; to cut. To cut, also a knife. A cut, a gash. |
| Tongan | He/hengi. Hengi-hengi. | Early. Morning, break of day. |
| Tongan | Heke heke | Slippery, slimy; slipperiness; to slide |
| Tongan | Hela | Fatigue; breathless, short of breath |
| Tongan | Hele | A trap, a snare |
| Tongan | Naw hele. Naw-gia. | To snare (with a string), to noose. To strangle. |
| Tongan | Heloo | A comb; to comb |
| Tongan | Heni | Here |
| Tongan | Heoo | To ward off, to avoid |
| Tongan | Hi | Emissio seminis |
| Tongan | Hico | To take up any thing that has been collected together; to tuck up, as one's dress; the name of a gamedress |
| Tongan | Hifo | To go down |
| Tongan | Higgi | To raise, to lift, to heave |
| Tongan | Hihifo | That end of an island which is towards the south; if the island should lie east and west, that end which is towards the west |
| Tongan | Hili | To put or place up or upon; to lodge or be fixed, as a body thrown, in a tree, &c. |
| Tongan | Hili. Hili/anga. | To leave off or finish any work or operation. End of, termination (in a moral sense), as termination of happiness or misery; also termination of work. |
| Tongan | Hilinga gele-gele | The fifth lunar month... |
| Tongan | Hilinga-mea | The name of the eighth lunar month... |
| Tongan | Hilo | The anus |
| Tongan | Hina. Hina-hina. | Hoary headed; grey with age. White. |
| Tongan | Hinga | To fall, to tumble |
| Tongan | Hingoa | Name, appellation. |
| Tongan | Hiva | The numeral, nine |
| Tongan | Hiva | To sing |
| Tongan | Hobo | To caper, to jump, a jump, to rebound |
